Nadeem Aslam Quotes

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

Her mind is a haunted house.

History is the third parent.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

God is just a name for our wonder.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Not even God can change the past.

The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.